My vision for @DriftProtocol is to build the best exchange with the broadest distribution of users.
My thesis is that a token is one way to assist with distribution and underwriting risk for using a new technology. There's a lot we can be improving on.
I am not a fan of
- Congrats to my co-founder @cindyleowtt on making the @Forbes 30 under 30 list! Super proud of what you’ve achieved and the role model you become in this space for other female founders and operators 🔥
- Drift's immediate plan is to be the best decentralised derivatives platform. Built on @solana at the L1 level to harness the global atomic state machine. No rollups or isolated environments. The benefit is asset availability. Drift is the only cross-margin perps DEX and this is
- 0/ In every cycle, there are periods of euphoria and then periods of fatigue. NFT’s on @Solana are beginning to experience this fatigue. This is not to say that the quality of new projects are bad but there has been more negative noise over the past week. A thread 🧵
- .@DriftProtocol team was cranking when $SOL was at $8 Drift is still cranking when $SOL is at $210 Drift will continue to crank when $SOL is at $1,000
- How do I locate the original 75 developers who kept @solana up during the darkest times? Looking to give something back to here. Tag away👇
- The benefit of @solana DATs is pretty clear to @DriftProtocol. Here's a few notes: - It's clear that @multicoin are big supporters of Drift from Day 1. They have been excellent partners to work with and over the years, I have always advocated teams to work with them if they
- This has been a culmination of numerous years of work and the craziest rollercoaster for the team. We started in 2021 with a team of four and shipped the first perpetuals platform on @solana. We came inches to death in 2022. We ran the comeback of the year in 2023. Today, weIntroducing $DRIFT — the Drift Governance Token. DRIFT is the governance token of Drift Protocol, the largest open-sourced perpetual futures exchange built on Solana.
00:00 - The most counter-intuitive thing to do is to launch with a low FDV. Imagine you’re a founder. You’ve worked on your project for years and finally the moment is upon you to embark on public price discovery. The natural instinct is to go as high as possible. But that couldn’t be
- BET by @DriftProtocol is built to be the first capital-efficient prediction market on @solana and our ecosystem's answer to @Polymarket. Capital efficiency is a differentiator for two reasons. 1. You can trade with any collateral that is available on @DriftProtocol. Unlike
- What we learnt today is when you attack one @solana team, the entire village and its elders fight on their behalf. Find another ecosystem that does this.
- A user just shared this with me. Deposited $4mn into @DriftProtocol. Just left it there for about ~2 months. $50k+ earned for just being a chill guy.
- Can everyone take a moment out of their day and drop a gm in the chat for our man @kashdhanda? Our favourite Sherpa needs some love.
- This is going to change the meta. Well done @wormholecrypto and @MadLads respectively for pushing this new paradigm. Imagine if @DriftProtocol …












